Korah
Here is a short video about Korah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4pgQvgdNqs
While in Ethiopia recently, we visited an area known as Korah. It is impossible to put into words the extreme poverty that permeates each and every mile of Korah. One person put it that "it is the worst place on earth." Our translator told us that you don't go to Korah unless you have nowhere else to go. The air doesn't circulate in Korah. There is no food in Korah. There is no housing in Korah. There is no water in Korah.
Needless to say, it is the poorest of poorest places in Addis. Heartbreaking stories pour out of the deplorable situation. We saw hundreds of people picking through the trash at the dump in desperate search for food. But the hardest to see was the children.
In one of the homes we visited the father told us that the reason some of his daughters were not there to greet us was because they were at the dump searching for things to sell so that they might be able to attend school. Our hearts broke!
Children who were lucky enough to be sponsored came up to us with their friends and begged us to sponsor them. I had no idea that education was so important until I looked around and saw that lack of education meant that the cycle of poverty would continue. Lack of education meant this child would grow up only knowing how to beg. It meant that this child would be helpless to defend themselves when their parents died of disease because no one was invested in their lives.
Here is a short video about Korah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4pgQvgdNqs
While in Ethiopia recently, we visited an area known as Korah. It is impossible to put into words the extreme poverty that permeates each and every mile of Korah. One person put it that "it is the worst place on earth." Our translator told us that you don't go to Korah unless you have nowhere else to go. The air doesn't circulate in Korah. There is no food in Korah. There is no housing in Korah. There is no water in Korah.
Needless to say, it is the poorest of poorest places in Addis. Heartbreaking stories pour out of the deplorable situation. We saw hundreds of people picking through the trash at the dump in desperate search for food. But the hardest to see was the children.
In one of the homes we visited the father told us that the reason some of his daughters were not there to greet us was because they were at the dump searching for things to sell so that they might be able to attend school. Our hearts broke!
Children who were lucky enough to be sponsored came up to us with their friends and begged us to sponsor them. I had no idea that education was so important until I looked around and saw that lack of education meant that the cycle of poverty would continue. Lack of education meant this child would grow up only knowing how to beg. It meant that this child would be helpless to defend themselves when their parents died of disease because no one was invested in their lives.
But there was something they hungered for more than education, more than food. Every place we went we brought with us a Big Picture Story Bible.... I have never seen anyone as thirsty for the Words as these kids were. I saw with my own eyes what it looks like to thirst for God as the deer pants for water. Psalm 42
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